Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by, while curious passers-by gape at a 325-lb. squash lying near Yaple's feet. Above the huge oval ring where the plump, gray-haired woman is sitting hangs a carefully lettered wooden sign that reads, "Arlene Yaple: for 35 years superintendent of Granges and Big Top displays. Danbury Fair thanks you for the great job you have done...
...distributorships in the area. Leahy journeyed as far as London to buy some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding. Once in control, the flamboyant Leahy rejuvenated the event, paving walkways, bringing in rides, building a model New England village with wooden fronts bought from the Grand Central railway, placing hundreds of gargantuan plastic animals and figures around the fairground. It was a unique blend of 4-H club, carnival and circus...
...dusty park, children frolic on a makeshift wooden Ferris wheel, seemingly oblivious of the armored personnel carrier at an intersection near by, a searchlight mounted on its turret. The younger children cluster around a foreigner, taking him for a Soviet, chanting "Khorosho! Khorosho!" (good). Older youths, approaching or just over the compulsory military draft age of 15, withdraw sullenly...
Some Catholic theologians have even compared the puppet's return to life after his hanging to Christ's resurrection. Marxist writers predictably have hailed Pinocchio as a metaphorical hero in the proletarian struggle against capitalistic oppression. Psychologists have mused worriedly about the sexual symbolism of the wooden boy's protruding proboscis...
...destroyer but was again torpedoed and finally, while drifting helplessly, was sunk by another British ship. Down with the cruiser went the 55 members of her 850-man crew who had died in the fighting-and entombed with them went five tons of gold ingots, contained in 93 wooden cases, that were a payment by the Soviets to the U.S. for military supplies. Covered by 800 ft. of frigid water, the doughty Edinburgh was quickly gone but not soon forgotten; the site of her foundering eventually was named an official British war grave...